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Early on, I was amused when Microsoft would tease the public about its next big hit. Microsoft was pretty good and smart in controlling media. It was the company’s heyday. That game is over.

Europe is facing a tough battle, the threat of energy shortfall. There’s a growing gap between demand for electricity and capacity of power stations to supply it.

It is two years since my little red cellphone came to live with me - and we've had some challenges with it, (especially lately with its ageing battery) and I was glad to see the end of it.

It all started last year when my son bought a Wii (pronounced 'wee') for his family.

Rumors are rife in the web that the Mountain based Search company Google is on hunt for Twitter. For months Twitter have became the subject of endless talks and business model speculation.

The Yahoo-Microsoft search ad partnership makes sense, Microsoft could be small when it comes to search market share but putting the two together they could make 30 percent of the search market behind

For the past few months we have seen an tremendous growth in computing and exponential growth in storage requirements. On our current economic conditions, taking cost out of IT while delivering solid performance is critical. As companies cope with the rapid data growth the need to drive increased agility while reducing complexity and cost has become one of IT’s great challenges. And the answer to those challenges is dynamic infrastructures. Today’s applications is getting extreme, IT companies are in great needs of cost effective storage that delivers optimal performance and could easily managed. Storage is a key element of dynamic world, just like Database storage is critical to company’s business. Oracle is about to move into hardware business with long time partner HP to deliver a state of the art Database Machine. Software Company Oracle Corp. and Hardware Company HP just announced the HP Oracle Database Machine ( Image courtesy of Oracle )and its key components the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server last year. Its monstrous machine it designed to power tomorrow’s business processing and big iron computing, it delivers an extreme computing power. The HP Oracle Database Machine is a high performance system that includes a grid of 8 database servers featuring 64 Intel processor cores running Oracle Database 11g with Oracle Real Application Clusters on Oracle Enterprise Linux. The machine also includes storage of 14 HP Oracle Exadata Storage servers with 112 processor cores of its own. The storage grid provides a massive 168 terabytes of raw storage (that’s huge) and delivers 14 GB per second data bandwidth between the storage server and the database server. It key components the Hp Oracle Exadata is smart software from Oracle and industry standard hardware from hardware leader HP. Each storage server includes an HP ProLiant DL 180 G5 server with 2 Intel 2.66 Ghz quad core processors, 12 disks 8 GB memory. Each storage server adds up to 12 TB of raw storage and I GB per second of data bandwidth to the storage grid. We could see a lot of raw power at this machine folk it was indeed the most fearsome machine on this planet. The HP Oracle Database Machine is a complete system preinstalled and preconfigured to deliver extremely fast query performance perfect for extreme data warehousing and intense business processing. The HP Oracle Exadata storage Server (a key component of HP Oracle Database Machine) are preloaded with Oracle Automatic Storage management for dynamic load balancing and data mirroring, it’s a plug and play system users won’t needs to configure anything. What HP and Oracle got here is simple; to brings hardware and software together in one, t create robust, cost effective data warehouse solutions that could help companies meet their most demanding business needs. The HP Oracle Database Machine provides a scalable architecture based on Oracle Grid technology and it’s considered to be fault tolerant. The HP Oracle Database Machine address a variety of issues and needs but overall its help companies solve their problems. It increased productivity, lower maintenance costs and ease IT management. It provides greater agility and an ability to respond quickly to fast changing business environment. The HP Oracle Database Machine is all about performance, manageability, cost effectiveness and superior scalability with investment protection.

Here I am sitting at Adelaide Airport in the "Business centre" with my laptop hooked in and working, just as if I was at home.

My parents are OK, but failing, and I'm on the return trip to Brisbane. My parents are really isolating themselves these days - in their 90's they find little to interest themselves although they do watch TV and DVD's.

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I was fascinated on Nokia’s latest Express Music Edition Cell phone. It’s the Nokia 5800! It’s not the latest cellphone released by Nokia, but it really caught my attention so I decided to blog about it. It has a 3.2” widescreen touch display, which is 640×320 pixel nHD resolution, a media bar that has quick access in different media types, has an 8 band graphic equalizer and also with bass booster, has a 3.2 megapixel camera with 3x zoom, high quality video recording, has an 81MB INTERNAL MEMORY and an expandable memory from 8MB to 16MB, and many more! Asking for more??? Just look at these phone specs.

I have my cell phone programmed to call my wife by my voice command. I just used that feature and delivered a message. I have done that a thousand times, but for some reason this time it caused me to think of a guy I had not thought of in over 30 years.